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Implications of firm heterogeneity for offshoring, wage and employment

Chen, Xi - 2018

domestic labor force at the sector-level. In order to better elucidate the offshoring employment relationship, this paper … production-side shock that changes firms' offshoring decision can influence the local economy and its labor market. …

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Firm efficiency and input market integration trade versus FDI

Imbruno, Michele - 2015

This paper highlights the crucial role played by international access to intermediate inputs to explain firm-level performance, via two channels simultaneously: trade and FDI. We develop a simple theoretical model showing that trade integration of input market entails an efficiency improvement...

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Trade in intermediate producer services under imperfect competition

Islyami, Aidan - 2009

In this paper a stylized CGE model is constructed to study the impact of liberalization of barriers for foreign providers of intermediate producer services under imperfect competition on the welfare, the downstream industry output, the prices of the factors of production and the pattern of...

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Does outward foreign direct investment affect domestic real wages? : an investigation using French micro-data

Gazaniol, Alexandre; Laffineur, Catherine - 2015

This paper investigates to which extent outward foreign direct investment (FDI) affects domestic wages. We are first interested in the raw wage differential between multinational and domestic firms. Results reveal that multinational companies pay a wage premium to their employees, even within...

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Wage effects of U.S. service offshoring by skills and tasks

Püschel, Julia - 2013

In this paper, I estimate the impact of service offshoring on the real wages of U.S. workers by controlling for workers …' skill levels and the offshoring susceptibility of different tasks. Matching individual-level wage data with input … results from a Mincerian wage regression indicate that within skill groups, the impact of service offshoring on real wages …

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Incomplete specialization and offshoring across Europe

Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen - 2012

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …

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Productivity effects from inter-industry offshoring and inshoring : firm-level evidence from Belgium

Merlevede, Bruno; Theodorakopoulos, Angelos - 2016

In this paper we confirm the existence of improvements of firm productivity when domestic upstream and downstream firms become more internationalized and therefore offshore (import intermediate inputs) and inshore (export final output for intermediate input usage) intensively. Chinaś accession...

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Trade liberalisation and import margins

Frensch, Richard - 2009

Trade policy has well documented effects on trade volumes. Reaching beyond volumes, I explore the impact of European emerging economies' recent institutional trade liberalisation on extensive (i.e., the set of imported goods) versus intensive import margins (volumes per imported good) with...

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Asymmetric trade liberalisation, sector heterogeneity and innovation

Ruiz, Antonio Navas - 2013

Innovation, mark-ups and the degree of trade openness vary substantially across sectors. This paper builds a multi-sector endogenous growth model to study the influence of asymmetric trade liberalisation and sectoral differences in the degree of product market competition on the effect that...

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Sorting it out : technical barriers to trade and industry productivity

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Jung, Benjamin - 2008

Trade economists traditionally study the effect of lower variable trade costs. While increasingly important politically, technical barriers to trade (TBTs) have received less attention. Viewing TBTs as fixed regulatory costs related to the entry into export markets, we use a model with...

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